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Emojis

Born from a Japanese tech arms race and immortalized in Fred Benenson’s 2009 masterwork “Emoji Dick,” the emoji has become a staple of the way we communicate. Such that the Oxford dictionary named the cry-laugh emoji its word of the year in 2015. Whether you’d like to convey comp ...  Show more

Hacktivism

Call them what you will: hactivists, cypherpunks, phone phreaks, e-bandits… these digital vigilantes may be the last bastions of hope in an Information Age where information is not dispersed equally. Growing from a group of pranksters at MIT in the 50s to the “ultra-coordinated m ...  Show more

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Britney Spears : amour, gloire et toxicité
Scandales

Toxic est peut-être la chanson qui résume au mieux la relation que l’on entretient avec Britney Spears…  Superstar des années 2000, Britney a rythmé notre existence avec des titres comme Oops I did it again ou encore …Baby one more time, mais également avec d ...

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#FreeBritney’s Dark Turn
Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

At the end of Britney Spears’s conservatorship in November of 2021, most of her fans rejoiced. But conspiracy theories have a subset of #FreeBritney fans convinced she’s still not really free. They focus on what they see as oddities or glitches in some of her Instagram posts. Vox ...  Show more

Into It: #FreeBritney’s Dark Turn
The Cut

At the end of Britney Spears’s conservatorship in November of 2021, most of her fans rejoiced. But conspiracy theories have a subset of #FreeBritney fans convinced she’s still not really free. They focus on what they see as oddities or glitches in some of her Instagram posts. Vox ...  Show more

So Now You Wanna Free Britney Too, Huh?
The Cut

Long before Britney Spears’s shocking testimony, her diehard fans had been sounding the alarm. For years they made hashtags and videos demanding the courts to “Free Britney" while the rest of the world just walked on by. But now those fans -- and maybe Britney herself-- are final ...  Show more